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Byron Donalds: “People will follow the law if they truly believe the laws…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

Congressmen Wesley Hunt & Byron Donalds | The Sage Steele Show

Published July 2, 2024 | Video Starts at 59:13

But it's also bigger than that. Our system, our country, our Constitution, our system of, of checks and balances, our legal system is all really predicated on the honor system. People will follow the law if they truly believe the laws are just. People will listen to institutions if they feel that the institutions are honorable and have their best interests at heart. (59:13–59:17)

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“Price of food up anywhere from 25 to 40% [for black families in Atlanta].”
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“The price of getting your used car repaired up 50%.”
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“We can mine for uranium. We get it from the Russians. Nobody likes to talk about that, but that's where we get it from.”
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“Solar panels are more dirty than natural gas.”
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“We have lost seven United States embassies under [Joe Biden's] presidency.”
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“You have the party which is really focused on legal challenges and dealing with ballot integrity.”
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“The elected representatives are doing their job. They're raising money to continue to go back and do their job.”
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“The school choice movement, which is now all in vogue in the United States, [started] with black moms in the inner city.”
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“We watched the Democrats lock black kids out of schools for two years.”
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“They are now academically behind for two years.”
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“The Democrat Party, their policy is terrible. It's not going to work.”
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“All I'm doing is talking about public policy, and all I'm talking about is saying that Donald Trump is the person to lead this country.”
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“The university president told us that most of the people in these encampments didn't even go to [George Washington University]. They are…”
Congressmen Wesley Hunt & Byron Donalds | The Sage Steele Show | Uploaded July 2, 2024 | 20:07-20:16
“The critical issue for America right now is translating what we know occurs in every community of this country and having that translate…”
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“The same gatekeepers in the political realm are the same gatekeepers in the medium realm. In the medium, frankly, at higher education realm.”
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“To put men in a sport against a female, that's just crazy to me.”
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“That's part of the reason you're starting to see now these political shifts in America.”
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“In our country, obviously, in Texas, oil rich throughout the entire west of America. Massive deposits of oil and natural gas, minerals and…”
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“We now have the technology for the same size nuclear reactors that we have on our nuclear subs that have been in the water for 70 years.”
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“We can build that stuff all across the country. Tremendously lower the cost of energy in our country.”
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“The Chinese do not care about women's rights.”
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“When America has been the dominant power on the globe, more people have come out of poverty.”
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“They're gonna destroy the purchasing power of poor people in our country in that process [of implementing the Green New Deal].”
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“We ain't fixing our border.”
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“Under [Joe Biden's] watch, we have had to evacuate seven United States embassies.”
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“That has never happened in American history.”
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“We have been weak under Joe Biden and so our adversaries around the globe, big and small, know that they can push us.”
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“I probably have President TRUMP Anywhere. 16 to 20% of the black vote overall total today, total black men. You're 25%.”
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“Joe Biden is hemorrhaging young black voters.”
Congressmen Wesley Hunt & Byron Donalds | The Sage Steele Show | Uploaded July 2, 2024 | 48:46-48:49
“The Democrats, if you were in a Democrat run area, they basically said, you can't go anywhere except to the polls and to go protest.”
Congressmen Wesley Hunt & Byron Donalds | The Sage Steele Show | Uploaded July 2, 2024 | 53:25-53:34
“I actually think that voter turnout overall is gonna be a little bit lower in this election than in 2020.”
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“The Democrats, they did. They went into every key jurisdiction and they sued to change election Procedure.”
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“They just literally changed the election procedures through the judicial system, or you had local agencies just say, we know this is what…”
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“You have this two-tier system of justice politically in our country now.”
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“You cannot persecute your political rivals because everybody sees that's phony and it's fake, and it's only for power purposes.”
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